Osmosis R&D Projects

• AMM Design
  • Batch execution design
    • The core difficulty here is finding how to effectively price the gas costs, and making corresponding AMM designs.
  • Smart LBPs
    • how can we make LBPs not suck so much? The Balancer weight changing mechanism seems like a terrible way to do it. Also, should be demand weighted
  • Volatility-based swap fees
    • how can we use dynamic fees to combat IL? Is there a way to construct a volatility index from TWAP to know when to increase fees?
  • Market making around external price
    • how can we automatically market make around an oracle price (validator provided or twap)
  • Generalized AMM DSL
  • Pool-specific governance
• Tendermint Core
  • ABCI++ Development
• Cosmos SDK Infra
  • Validator Price Oracles
  • Parallel execution of non conflicting trades
  • Generalized Governance Module
    • We want to allow every pool to have its own governance system.
  • Mempool work
    • Allow for prioritization / block space reservation of different tx types
  • EIP-1559 style work
    • We want to integrate feedback-loop style gas estimation. However, we want to have separate feedback loops for Bandwith, I/O, and computation.
  • Multi-Gravity Bridge
    • Adapt Gravity Bridge, which is an ETH < > Cosmos bridge via threshold signer, to work with multiple EVM chains at once.
• MEV Resistance
  • Integrate Threshold Decryption
  • Design for "spam-resistant" Order Randomization
• Privacy
  • Integrate multi-asset shielded pool into Cosmos SDK
    • The multi-asset shielded pool circuit is already designed (see here), this mainly will require integration into the SDK.
• Staking & Governance
  • Reverse Staking Derivatives
    • Be able to stake LP tokens that contain underlying native token. See prior work.
  • Epoched Staking
• Chain Scaling
  • These are in general a bit lower priority, but allow for the chain to get higher throughput.
  • Batch signature verification for txs
  • Erasure encoded block gossip
  • Compress block data before gossiping